Yeah, so…we’re back.

On and off, for the last couple of years I’ve been heavily involved in the effort to keep Marygrove College going. I am (or rather, was) one of the senior faculty there and so spent a lot of time in various forms of service to the College, including being a Department Chair, a Division Chair, and most recently a Criterion Team Leader for our last accreditation effort. Didn’t leave a whole lot of time for ol’ RAIL here. Sorry about that.

That brings me to the point of this post. It’s kind of a good news/bad news deal. The bad news? Despite our best efforts, the Board and administration at Marygrove decided to close all of our undergraduate programs and hand pink slips to nearly all of her faculty, regardless of rank or tenure, including yours truly. The good news? I’ve got a whole bunch of time on my hands now! Ergo this post. Of course I’m job hunting, but I’m also (quite happily) back to writing and research, and one consequence of that is that RAIL is back in business.